How many veterans were served in nonprofit service area by tract?
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Sources
private
Source: We All Count
The database used to track nonprofit participants is limited and may not accurately show all of the veterans being served. The community data used for comparison is a year behind and is only a representative sample of the full data.
STCH by knowing where the gaps are and what their focus needs to be; potentially the funders who can show the number of veterans their money is supporting; the community if more resources are alocated to the organization that will ulitmately help the veterans in that community
Help nonprofit show how much they are helping real needs and where more funding is necessary to meet the rest of the community needs.
Show the gap between kids veterans served by nonprofit versus total in the community. Clearly present the data to the nonprofit so they can use the information to present to funders and other stakeholders.
Not discussed.
The nonprofit. The funders who needed to see the information.
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STCH Food Bank Manager, ACS community data
Tract; veterans Served; veterans in the service area
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What is the number of veterans in poverty in the STCH service area? What are the gaps between the kids served by STCH and those veterans in the STCH service area? Which tracts have the highest need?
Compared the STCH service numbers to the most recent ACS data.
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Descriptive
No
Placing all veterans into one category.
Predicitive
Tract level changes the data? Breaking out the data based on smaller age ranges, sex, race, ethnicity would add additional insights.
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Casual
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Content
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Veterans
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Raw data is available for the ACS data, and aggregate numbers by tract for the STCH data.
Basic story about gaps. Not coming to any conclusions or making assumptions about causation.
Access
Private
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The nonprofit data can be updated on a monthly basis as their monthly report is updated. The comparison to the ACS data can only be updated once a year when that information is updated.
There was no branding.
Interactive Dashboard.
Dynamic
Digital
Medium
The nonprofit gave feedback on the dashboard via emails and verbally.
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No copyright issues
Raw data is available for the ACS data, and aggregate numbers by tract for the STCH data.
As long as the client maintains access to the dashboard.
A highschool reading level but no specific training.
The dashboard is stored on a 9b license, but the data itself is owned by nonprofit or ACS.
Yes
Digital